
Sustainability Assurance
There is a lot at stake for you and your investors, customers, banks, ratings agencies, employees, and society at large.
Your stakeholders want to see transparency and progress—and high-quality ESG and climate disclosures published in accordance with recognized ESG standards and frameworks. Let us empower you during this critical time to become leaders in transparency through independent assurance.
We offer:
- External ESG reporting and Assurance readiness – Understand the governance, risks, processes and controls you have in place for ESG data and metrics and reporting therein, and provide recommendations for improvement
- Assurance frameworks – assure once for many – as shareholders, banks, ratings agencies, green bond holders and others require more assurance how can you do that in a robust and efficient way
- Assurance review – Limited assurance over select ESG metrics or report as a whole
- Assurance examination – Reasonable assurance over select ESG metrics or report as a whole
These services may improve your ability to meet stakeholders’ expectations for accurate and reliable disclosures while helping to reduce risks related to misleading or omitted disclosures and avoiding non-compliance with laws and regulations. Obtaining assurance also gives management and the board greater confidence in the completeness and accuracy of your ESG disclosures to enable them and to be confident in what they are representing to the various stakeholders.
Insights
Please find our collection of insights on assurance below.

The Right to Repair Movement
A circular economy could tackle our planet’s challenges in the field of climate, biodiversity and pollution. With the 'right to repair' legislative proposal, which is included in the EU Green Deal, the European Commission (EC) aims to create such a circular economy. It aims to stimulate more sustainable usage of goods and reduce waste. The proposal will likely be adopted in the third quarter of 2022 and entails amendments to existing rights in the Sale of Goods Directive as well as a new right to repair. In this article, we will discuss the introduction of new sustainability product requirements, the legislative implications, potential future impacts, and business opportunities.

Get ready for climate-related risk disclosures
Investors, regulators and other stakeholders increasingly demand non-financial information disclosures. The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) responds to the growing demand for non-financial information disclosures on the high impact of climate change on organisations. The TCFD stresses the importance for financial stakeholders of understanding organisations’ climate-related risks and opportunities.

Climate risk disclosure considerations
Climate change is happening faster than anticipated. Our planet, society and economy are already being affected and climate science shows us the risks are real. Organisations must therefore urgently address and disclose their climate risks. It is time to act. Our key questions and suggested first steps will help organisations to prepare for robust climate risk disclosures.

Climate-related risk: start small and be a learning organisation
Climate change brings about risks and opportunities for all organisations. Understanding what they are and being able to quantify them is essential—not only for an organisation’s continuity, but also for external stakeholders, including investors and regulatory bodies. But where to start?

Measure and monitor: Getting unstuck on the journey to net zero
Jacques Buith reflects on “Europe’s turning point: Accelerating new growth on the path to net zero”, and how to ensure climate-change commitments are met. Buith is Deloitte’s Global Lead Partner for the United Nations.

The European Commission publishes draft guidance on sustainability agreements
The Growth Strategy in the European Green Deal demonstrates that sustainable development is a high priority for the European Member States. The European Commission (EC) has recognised that collaboration in the field of sustainability, within the boundaries of competition law, can contribute more to environmental and climate goals. Therefore, the EC has added a new chapter on sustainability agreements to its draft revised Horizontal Guidelines of the European Commission (”draft Guidelines”), which were published on 1 March 2022 . This blog briefly discusses the content of the draft Guidelines and the particular topics where local Competition Authorities take a more liberal approach.
Let's connect for impact

Albert Jan Heitink
Sustainability Reporting & Assurance Partner
Marco van der Vegte
ESG Reporting & Assurance Partner

Arjan Bouwmeester
ESG Reporting & Assurance Director
Han Hindriks
Director Risk Advisory

Vanessa Otto-Mentz
Sustainability Performance Management, Disclosure and Assurance

Anke Vervoorn
Audit & Sustainability Assurance Senior Manager